Aquatic and terrestrial environments are increasingly contaminated by anthropogenic
sources that include pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and industrial and …

Numerous factors are contributing to the loss of biodiversity. These include complex effects
of multiple abiotic and biotic stressors that may drive population losses. These losses are …

Neonicotinoids are a new type of highly water-soluble insecticide used in agricultural
practices to eliminate pests. Neonicotinoids bind almost irreversibly to postsynaptic nicotinic …

Amphibians are among the vertebrate groups suffering great losses of biodiversity due to a
variety of causes including diseases, such as chytridiomycosis (caused by the fungal …

Farming practices may reshape the structure of watersheds, water quality, and the health of
aquatic organisms. Nutrient enrichment from agricultural pollution increases disease …

There are many examples where the use of chemicals have had profound unintended
consequences, such as fertilizers reducing crop yields (paradox of enrichment) and …

At least 32% of amphibian species are threatened or extinct (Stuart et al., 2004; IUNC,
2017). Amphibians are thought to be especially sensitive to a milieu of stressors because …

Amphibians are constantly exposed to pollutants and the stress of agricultural activities. We
selected three anuran amphibian species Dendropsophus minutus, Boana albopunctata …

Pathogen-induced population declines and extinction events have been recognized as main
threats to amphibian species around the globe. However, the ecological drivers underlying …

In this study, we investigated the effects of three binary mixtures of pesticide formulations
commonly used in soybean crop: Cypermethrin Atanor®(25%-CYP), Chlorpyrifos Lorsban …